The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

Every scientific discovery is a new dialogue with nature, bringing us closer to the mysteries of the universe.

可能是公鸡在啼叫，但下蛋的是母鸡。

作家必须是被边缘化的人、被遗忘的人、被击败的人的捍卫者。

世界充满了故事，但需要一种特别的人去聆听它们。